492 Index. Bentham, Jeremy, an important charac- teristic of his teaching, 131 Bentinck, Lord George, 353, 366 Berkeley, Grantley, 374 Berkeley, Hon. H. F., votes for reform, 341 (note) ; annual motions for the ballot, 370, 374, 387, 392, 401, 407, 416, 421, 426, 436, 445, 449, 456, 461 ; votes for national education scheme, 378 (note) Bermuda, 290 Bethel, Sir R. (afterwards Lord West- bury), 432, 462 Birmingham : Newhall Hill meeting and election of legislatorial attorney, 132 ; Manchester tragedy, 135 ; its proposed enfranchisement, 210, 220, 221 ; Chartist agitation, 362 ; returns Mr. Bright, 425 ; proposed increase of members, 444, 471 ; Brookfield's reform demonstration, 474 ; summonses for poor rates, 482 Bishops, the, motions to exclude, from House of Peers, 248, 280 Blandford, Marquis of, 219, 220 Blanketeers, the, 124 Bonaparte, Napoleon, belief of Fox and Radicals in, 60 ; how regarded in 1801, 74 ; successes in 1806, 79 ; hatred of England, 85 ; orders in council, 93 ; his reverses, in ; defeat and abdica- tion, 112 ; escape from Elba, war, final defeat, 114 Boroughs, number of new, created by Reform Act 1832, 231 Bourbons, the, restoration of, 103 Bouverie, Hon. E. P., notes on pp. 341, 364, 378, 406 Brand, Mr., 88, 103, 106, no Bribery and corruption, Curwen's bill to prevent, 95 ; charges of, against Perceval andCastlereagh, 95 ; Russell's proposal to recognize rights of, 222 ; proposals to prevent, 139, 154, 155, 201 Bright, Jacob, 377 Bright, John, first elected to Parliament for Durham, 314, 331 ; Crawford's motion for redress of grievances, 332 (note) ; Maynooth grant, 343 ; his position in 1847, 358 ; reform, 1848, 364 (note) ; abolition of Church rates, 372 ; advocates non-intervention in
- %5 > 379 ; " Papal Aggression," 384 ;
Irish tenant-right bill, 393 ; the " Eastern Question," 402, 403 ; bill to abolish primogeniture, 406 (note) ; protests against levity respecting Crimean war, attacked by Palmer- ston, 407 ; conditional support of Palmerston, 415; Chinese ("Arrow"' question, 425 ; teller in division overthrowing Palmerston, 428 ; Derby Government India Bill, 431 ; Reform Bill, 1859, 435 ; his power in 1859, 439 ; Whig seceders on Reform Bill, 445 American civil war, 455 ; Whig and Conservative attacks about 1866, 466 et seq. ; Irish grievances, 468 ; a hero oi reform demonstration, 474 ; genera" recognition of his statesmanship, 476 declares for household suffrage, 480 ; the condition of his entering the Cabinet, 483 rother Brotherton, J. , 325 Brougham, Henry, Lord, counsel for Liverpool merchants in opposition to Orders in Council in 1807. 93 ; enters Parliament in 1810, and teller for motion to abolish flogging in the army, 106, 107; assists in defeating Orders in Council, 107 ; defeated by Canning for Liver- pool in 1812, in ; speaks against sus- pension of Habeas Corpus in 1817, 123 ; considered the originator of national education scheme ; attacks Canning, 173 ; opposition to bill to suppress Catholic Association, 183 ; Duke of York and Catholic emancipation, 186 ; universal suffrage and the ballot, 221 ; reform, 225 ; takes office under Grey, 226 ; national education, 246 ; tour in the country, and attack on Durham, 256 ; attack on Durham on Canadian business, 290 ; corn laws, 297 ; re- semblance to Roebuck, 314 ; votes against acquittal of O'Connell, 337 Buckingham, Duke of, 318, 320 Buckingham, J. S., 238, 244 Buckingham, Marquis of, no Budget, the : feeble proposals of Spring Rice, 303 ; defeat of Government in 1841, 309 ; dissatisfaction at 1851 budget, 385, 388 ; Gladstone's success- ful budgets, 400 ; Disraeli's amendment to 1857 budget, 424 Buenos Ayres, recognition of independ- ence of, 177 Buller, Charles, his character, 238 ; Angli- can episcopacy, 275 ; protest against Russell's declaration on reform, 288 ; Jamaica constitution, 298 Buller, Sir J. F. , 305 Bulwer. See Lytton Burdett, Sir Francis, first elected to Parliament in 1796, 65 ; position in 1807, 92 ; supports charges against Duke of York, 94 ; scheme of reform in 1809, 95 ; conflict with House of Commons and committal to Tower in 1810, 98-100 ; his character and prin- ciples he represented, 101 ; release and disappointment of the people, 102 ; effect of these events, 103 ; motion to abolish flogging in the army, 106 ; op- poses Government bill to put down machinery riots, etc., 107; demand for reform in 1816, 117 ; teller against introduction of Seditious Meetings Bill in 1817, 122 (note) ; presents petition for annual parliaments and universal suffra'ge, 126 ; opposes Westminster Hustings Bill, 127 ; motion for reform and his justification of the conduct of the Radicals, 129 ; Buxton's opinion of, 137 ; chief of the avowed Radicals in 1821, 149 ; fined for libel in a letter about Manchester massacre, and feel- ings evoked thereby, 150 ; Catholic emancipation, 173, 185, 212 ; protest
